Strobe Vs Continuous Lighting Portraits

The answer to that question has changed over the last near eleven years of shooting portraits in the studio due to changes in technology and changes to my shooting style.

Strobe vs continuous lighting portraits.

Continuous lighting source if turn on it will stay on. Sometimes you can increase or decrease the power of them up or down according to your needs. Do i prefer continuous lighting or strobes. The first downside of constant lighting is that these lights even professional grade ones are not as powerful as a high quality strobe light.

The big disadvantage of continuous lights is they are so woefully dim as compared to flash or to the sun. Here s a new 11 minute video in which i compare the pros and cons of strobes vs. All true but it can be said more bluntly. The big advantages of strobes vs continuous lighting for portraits are.

This week we compared the pros and cons of strobes vs. Use in video shooting. Elenahappiness for helping to make this video. Pros of continuous lighting.

Thanks to our model elena g. These 500 watt hot lights or 500 watt equivalent cool cfl lights are quite dim compared to flash. Continuous light and conduct some indoor and outdoor lighting tests. The one way to identify what is most powerful is to look at whether or not it is capable of overpowering the sun such as when shooting outdoor portraits in the middle of the day.

The continuous light allows you to see the light effect on your subject and scene.